Imagine my surprise while I was perusing the shelves of VV today and I happened upon this herd (riot? mob? catenative assemblage?) of canvases. Fourteen of them. All in plastic (sorry about the picture quality by the way: but there was no way I was gonna unwrap, photograph and rewrap fourteen paintings on Senior Day at VV.)
I have no idea why somebody generously gifted (bombarded? accosted? assaulted?) VV with these things. Snark aside, in all honesty they aren’t bad. Granted, the duck one is kinda awful but I like the landscape, the motel ones and the boat one a lot! I guess the real question is…are these paintings actual human being / artistic person created works of art? I googled the artist and his work is under the monicker of “Corbellic Art”: it appears to be legit. But who really knows anymore. Pfft. It all seems pretty umm assembly line, rote, whatever. I could see someone hustling and doing…20 or 30 of these a day maybe. But: that doesn’t mean they aren’t still Art. Nor does it mean they aren’t any good. I’d take most of these over ehhh sixty percent of the stuff we usually see here.
If anyone cares to further research this stuff and if you can prove they’re machine-generated or otherwise AI/inorganic/CGI folderol, I’ll remove them.
Until then? They stay!
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